Pièce 25 - Letter from Edwin Montagu to Venetia Stanley

TRANSCRIPT:

India Office, Whitehall, S.W.

12. 12. 1911.

My dear Miss Stanley

I have had it on my conscience that I have not written an answer to two letters of yours {1}. I do so now but only a line to thank you for them and to say how I enjoyed them and wanted them.

I am looking forward heaps to coming to Alderley and will come as soon as I can.

I should enjoy the tenants dance much but the other dance is not likely to be much the better for my lugubrious dancing presence.

Geewiz I am bored of this day. I’ve had to see all sorts of newspaper men. I liked the Daily Mail most because he was just like the paper and horrible.

I also am bored of this session.

It was fun to see you the other day in the train. We did not have a very good weekend—it would have been bad if it were not for Geoffrey—whom I love.

If you want to add to all my obligations you will forgive this scrappy letter and write to me anything!

Yrs
Edwin S. Montagu

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Black-edged paper.

{1} These letters have not been identified. It is possible that they have not survived.